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    Na for the most part Airbus is imperial. Keeps a standard and cost of tooling down. Airbus does have some stupid little metric bits here and there when you least expect it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nibblet View Post
    Na for the most part Airbus is imperial. Keeps a standard and cost of tooling down. Airbus does have some stupid little metric bits here and there when you least expect it.
    The Concorde was metric for the French parts and imperial for the English parts and they joined metric to imperial, unbelievable bit of engineering
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maca49 View Post
    The Concorde was metric for the French parts and imperial for the English parts and they joined metric to imperial, unbelievable bit of engineering
    Mixing can be expensive though! CNN - Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter - September 30, 1999

 

 

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